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I think human species real advantage is human hands, they are so precise, for me that's what made the difference
by 11235813213455 2y ago
I think human species real advantage is human hands, they are so precise, for me that's what made the difference
- atombender 2y agoI'm not sure what you mean by this comment. Was there a time when you didn't have hands?
- 11235813213455 2y agoyes, when we were still bacterias or a bit later, even monkeys hands are not always super precise
- inglor_cz 2y agoI sometimes wonder if crows would be able to build a civilization if they had human hands. They may be about as smart as australopithecus, so there could be an evolutionary feedback loop: tools-brain-better tools-better brain. But you can only do so much with a beak.
- hinkley 2y agoIn the Uplift books dolphins are given prosthetic arms. That’s already half future tech and you’d have to miniaturize them for crows. No way to control them yet, in either case.
- out_of_protocol 2y agoCrow's brains are very good at what they do because their version of human's neocortex is in the center of the brain. And this is the reason why crow's brains can't scale up, there no enough space to grow "thinking" part of brain
- fooker 2y agoHuman hands are marvelously complicated, we don’t appreciate that much as we see our hands everyday. Interestingly, a stark reminder for this came when image generating models could generate everything except realistic hands.
- everybodyknows 2y agoHands are notoriously difficult for human artists to draw as well; this is perhaps one reason so few make the attempt nowadays.
- FredPret 2y agoAnd living above ground. Whales and octopuses might be geniuses but they'll never have a tech tree because they can't melt metal
- ghthor 2y ago[flagged]